Reckon to MYOB migration services for businesses in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, from Reckon Accounts Hosted and Desktop or from Reckon One. We map Reckon GST codes to their MYOB equivalents, turn customer jobs into MYOB jobs and give every account the MYOB number it needs.
Built here. Your data stays here.
Most of Reckon maps cleanly to MYOB. These are the pieces that change name or shape on the way.
How Reckon holds it today.
Where it sits in MYOB from the first day.
What actually comes across
Moving the balances is the easy part. The work is the history: the invoices still open, the codes that do not exist in MYOB, the attachments nobody wants to lose, and the customer records that have drifted over years. All of it has to arrive reconciled, not approximately.
What has to move
Codes mapped to their MYOB equivalents, records deduplicated on rules you approve, then both systems run side by side until the balances agree. Cutover happens on a window you choose.
Talk to us about your conversionWhat you get
Reckon and MYOB are both Australian systems, but they file the same business differently. These are the six differences that shape a Reckon to MYOB move.
Reckon Accounts splits purchases with GST into non-capital (NCG) and capital (CAG) codes. MYOB uses GST for everyday purchases and CAP for capital ones.
Every Reckon code is mapped to the MYOB code that puts it in the same Business Activity Statement box. We then produce a past statement from each system and compare them line by line.
Reckon Accounts lets you open jobs underneath a customer. MYOB has a job list of its own, and a job can be put on each line of an invoice, bill or journal.
Each Reckon job becomes a MYOB job, linked to the right customer card, so job profit reports keep working. Finished jobs come across as inactive so they stay in the history without cluttering the list.
Account numbers are optional in Reckon. They are required in MYOB AccountRight, where the first digit sets the account type, from 1 for assets through to 9 for other expenses.
We number every Reckon account under that scheme and agree the list with your accountant before loading, so the balance sheet reads in the right order from the first report.
Reckon Accounts keeps customers, suppliers, employees and an other names list. MYOB turns all of these into cards: customer, supplier, employee and personal cards.
Other names, such as a director who is reimbursed now and then, usually become personal cards. Duplicates across the Reckon lists are merged on rules you approve before anything loads.
Reckon payroll items are rebuilt as MYOB wage, superannuation, entitlement, deduction and employer expense categories. Each employee card gets its pay rate, tax details, super fund and leave balances.
Year-to-date figures are loaded so Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 reporting carries on. The switch lands at the end of a pay period, so nobody is paid from two systems in one cycle.
Reckon One is sold in modules: core, invoices, bills, projects and payroll. Each module you use is taken out separately and matched together before the MYOB load.
Reckon One projects become MYOB jobs, and its bank rules are rebuilt as MYOB bank rules rather than copied.
A Reckon to MYOB price depends on the Reckon product, which MYOB you move to, how many years come across and how much payroll history there is.
We check your Reckon product, your jobs and GST codes, your payroll and the apps that feed Reckon before we price anything.
Clean-up, the MYOB setup, the data load, the checks and the cutover are covered by one price, agreed before work starts.
Long history or several app connections can be delivered after the core move as separate stages, each priced and signed off on its own.
Why HELLO PEOPLE
DIY spreadsheet migrations, vendor migration tools, and offshore migrators all promise to move your data. Here's how HELLO PEOPLE compares on the things that actually matter to an AU SMB owner.
| Concern | HELLO PEOPLE | DIY spreadsheets | Vendor migration tool | Offshore migrators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data preserved end-to-end | 100% + validated at every step | Usually yes, no validation | Advertised complete, some fields drop | Depends on the vendor |
| Downtime during cutover | Zero. Parallel run + weekend cut | Days to weeks | Hours to days | Often days |
| AU BAS / GST / payroll fit | AU-native, understood | You own the risk | Usually generic | Variable |
| Pricing model | Fixed price, one-time | Your team's time forever | Per-record or flat fee | Per-hour + revisions |
| When something breaks | We own the fix, no charge | You own it | Support ticket queue | Time-zone gap |
| Data cleansing | Included in scope | Optional, often skipped | Usually not | Quoted separately |
| Post-cutover support | 30 days included, plan optional | None | Chat support tier | Depends on contract |
Meet the person
Your Reckon to MYOB Migration, handled by the founder from start to end.
HELLO PEOPLE designs, builds and looks after AI, software, app and data solutions for Australian businesses, with senior expertise on every project and a scope agreed before work starts. For a migration, that means every balance is proven before the old system is switched off.
Since 2007, HELLO PEOPLE has delivered more than 100 projects from Perth for small and medium businesses across Australia: custom software and apps, system integrations, data migrations, reporting and dashboards, and AI that works inside the systems a business already runs.
I lead every engagement myself. I trained in accounting before moving into IT, hold accounting and IT professional qualifications and an MBA, and bring more than 20 years of experience across sales, service delivery, inventory and compliance. I am also a PhD candidate in AI at Curtin University, researching retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), so the technology is always judged by what it does for the business.
Small and boutique. The person who scopes your migration is the person who moves your data, and the same person is there on cutover weekend.
No ticket queue and no account manager in between. You hear back within one business day, usually sooner.
The migration is the start, not the end. When you need the next system, integration or report, you call the same person, who already knows your business.
A Perth-based services group with 60+ staff moved off their legacy accounting stack to a modern cloud platform, taking multiple entities across in one coordinated cut. Chart of accounts consolidated, payroll continuity preserved through cutover, and BAS lodgement continued on time.
Read the full case studyWe had been putting off the switch for over a year. They made it painless, scoped it clearly, migrated everything, and our team was up and running in MYOB within weeks. The data was cleaner than it had been in years.
A structured process so you know what is happening at each stage. No ambiguity, no surprises.
Reckon Accounts or Reckon One, MYOB AccountRight or MYOB Business. The pair decides how data comes out and goes in, so we pin it down first and fix the price from there.
Duplicate names across the customer, supplier and other names lists are merged, dead jobs are closed and unused accounts are made inactive in Reckon before anything is copied.
The conversion month is set, the numbered account list and tax codes are built, and jobs, cards and payroll categories are set up for your team.
Cards, then jobs, then open invoices and bills, then opening balances, then history and payroll. Each stage is checked against Reckon before the next one starts.
Trial balance, aged receivables, aged payables and a past Business Activity Statement are compared between Reckon and MYOB. Your bookkeeper checks real invoices before sign-off.
We switch at the end of a pay period and stay close for the first month. The Reckon file stays read-only as a reference.
It is a fixed price, set once we know which Reckon product you run (Reckon Accounts Hosted, Reckon Accounts Desktop, Reckon One or Reckon Elite), how many years of history come across, how complex payroll is and which apps need reconnecting to MYOB.
About 2 to 6 weeks for most Australian businesses. Reckon One files for a sole trader usually finish in 2 to 3 weeks. Reckon Accounts Hosted with years of history and payroll sits at the longer end, because every employee's leave and year-to-date figures are checked one by one.
If you use Reckon Accounts with jobs, inventory or detailed payroll, MYOB AccountRight is usually the closer fit. A smaller Reckon One user who invoices and pays bills often suits MYOB Business. We confirm the choice before quoting.
Each one is mapped to the MYOB code that reports in the same Business Activity Statement box. Reckon splits purchases into non-capital (NCG) and capital (CAG). MYOB uses GST and CAP for the same purchases.
Yes. Reckon stays live until cutover. Both systems run in parallel for the final two weeks so no invoice or bill falls between them.
Yes. Pay rates, leave balances, year-to-date figures, super funds and Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 reporting move to MYOB and are checked. The cut is timed to your pay cycle.
Yes. Job systems, CRM, payroll add-ons and online stores are rebuilt against MYOB as part of the scope, and tested before the switch.
Yes. We are based in Perth and move Reckon files to MYOB for businesses anywhere in Australia. The whole project runs remotely.
Where people go after Reckon varies, and we scope the move to whichever system you have chosen: Xero, MYOB AccountRight, MYOB Business, MYOB Acumatica, QuickBooks Online, Reckon, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage 50, Sage 300, Sage Intacct, Odoo, Zoho Books, FreshBooks, Saasu, SAP Business One, Oracle and Workday. If the one you have picked is a poor fit for how you actually work, we will say so before you have paid for a conversion into it.
The parts that decide the timeline are the same wherever you land: the chart of accounts, the general ledger, the customer and supplier master, open purchase orders and sales orders, opening balances and payroll history, and how much history you export out of the old system and import into the new one, rather than leave behind in a readable archive. Hosted files, local files and vendor exports each come out differently.
If you are looking because Reckon is too old, out of support or reaching end of life, that is a question of timing rather than whether. It is worth comparing the alternatives and moving away on your own schedule rather than on the one the vendor picks for you.
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